Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Google's Android!! Word Processing!!


blogged by GmyDotCom

GDocs
This is actually a very basic word processor. It is so basic it practically contains no editing facilities like fonts or lines spacing. What good would that do, you ask? Plenty, if you just need to quickly  write a note of a couple of pages to text. Mind, the next cannot be formatted. However, the advantage of this app over the other similarly stripped down mere note writers is this fact: after you complete your document you can upload it from your Android phone up to Google Docs, the online cloud documents editor. The other advantage is you never have to store your document inside your phone' they're all up in a Google cloud server. & you can download a document from Google Docs into the phone & edit it & then upload it back.

ThinkFree Write
Like most mobile word processors, this one can also display in portrait or landscape view. Of course, working on the app in an Android phone, you'd be the app to scroll & zoom in using either the standard gesture or the double tap or pinch. Or you can just open the document up in full screen. The app can edit a wide range of Office formats, from Doc, Docx, Dot, Dotx, RTF to TXT. You can do the usual editing like copying, cutting & pasting, changing the style, deleting & inserting paragraph breaks, pasting in shapes, pictures & drawings. You can do word searched within the document, or quick select of just a word, sentence pr paragraph. Before you save the document, you can pick the next encoding option & then sent it out.

Document To Go 2.0
Is the Android version different  or better than the Symbian one? In fact it is, probably due to its porting over to a smartphone OS like Android. This makes this app more able to support bold, italic, superscript, subscript & underlined text. Moreover, you can even colour the text & display in about a dozen fonts, like Arial, Calibri, Times New Roman & Wingdings. As for working on paragraphs, you can choose the alignment & indents, & how many line spacings. You can make page breaks, insert ordered & unordered lists, & create tables. Very nice, this one, when you can add comments into the pages. It looks like you can edit anything with this app, like the desktop version of MS Word. Not exactly as the buck stops at headers & footers.

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